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Maroon 5 releases "V"

Maroon 5 fans sure have a lot to be happy about. In addition to releasing their fifth studio album, "V" at the beginning of September, the band gifted its diehards with another special announcement – a new world tour schedule.

Maroon 5's "V" tour is now officially set to commence on February 16, 2015 in Dallas, Texas and will wrap on June 17 in Lisbon, Portugal. Fans can already pre-order their Maroon 5 tickets (that began on September 6, while European pre-sales started on Sept. 3rd). The tour will reportedly include special guest artists Magic!, U.S. tour opening act Rozzi Crane and European tour opening act Nick Gardner.

Adam Levine talked about the new album a few months ago, telling MTV, "This album is very much all over the place. There's some stuff on our record that sounds a little like early Maroon 5, and then there's some stuff that sounds like the newer direction that we went in."

Maroon 5 recently headlined the Hyundai Card City Break, a rock festival in South Korea. They will also headline the 2014 iTunes Festival in London, with that concert scheduled for September 11, 2014.
Until the band hits the road next year, Levine will return to his duties as a judge on NBC's "The Voice." He's also enjoying married life to Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo, recently calling their new union "trippy" on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

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Adam Levine … TV producer? Sure, it may have sounded far-fetched once upon a time, but the days of Levine being a TV novice are in the past. The occasional actor and coach of NBC's "The Voice" is tackling a new role – he's sold an autobiographical comedy series that he is co-producing to the Peacock network. The project is based on the real-life relationship between Adam and his best friend and roommate before they found success. Will it be successful? Time will tell. But until then…

Maroon 5's rock-solid work ethic has been on display all summer, as the guys have crisscrossed the country with Kelly Clarkson as part of a 34-date North American trek, which got underway August 1 in Maryland Heights, Mo., and runs through Oct. 6. Of course, the band has sort of scaled down the M-shaped stage and lavish production it brought to arenas in the last few years, but they've still figured out how to bring some of it to the outdoor venues they're currently playing.

All things considered, the tour is a bit of an encore for Maroon 5, as it's playing its second swing in support of the 2012 album "Overexposed," which has been certified platinum. "Love Somebody" is the fourth (and likely final) single from the project, following "Payphone," "One More Night" and "Daylight." The band has already started writing for its fifth studio album, which will have keyboardist Jesse Carmichael returning after taking a hiatus for "Overexposed."

It's been said in various interviews that new material forthcoming from the band is going to be "maybe a little darker in sound." Regardless, fans will undoubtedly be clamoring for the new music the way they're clamoring for tickets to Maroon 5's live shows. And until then, Levine is content to keep that infamous swivel chair warm on "The Voice," along with selling his own line of fragrances, apparel and accessories.

Once dogged by the perception that they were simply a boy band, the members of Los Angeles-based outfit Maroon 5 went to great lengths to change their image. Fronted by the tattooed and chiseled Adam Levine, the band – which has also included guitarists James Valentine and Sam Farrar, keyboardists Jesse Carmichael and PJ Morton, bassist Mickey Madden and drummer Matt Flynn-- set out to get the message across it writes and performs all its own music and exists outside the rock 'n' roll norms.

By the close of 2010 and post-release of "Hands All Over," Maroon 5 had produced the smash hit "Moves Like Jagger," which premiered live on NBC's "The Voice" on June 21, 2011 and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by September. By that point, the band was everywhere. Levine was already serving as a vocal coach on "The Voice," would eventually sign on to recur in an FX television series and was later cast in the film "Can a Song Save Your Life?"

With Levine's star shining bright, the band plowed through and into 2012 at a breakneck pace. They released their fourth studio album, "Overexposed," on June 26, calling it their "most diverse…album yet." The first single, "Payphone," debuted at number 3 on the Hot 100, and the follow-up "One More Night" beat out the international sensation of PSY's "Gangnam Style" to top the charts for nine weeks.

Maroon 5's "Overexposed" World Tour played around the globe until Levine had to return stateside for the third season of "The Voice." Despite being back behind the judge's chair, Levine and the band have announced the third single from their current project is going to be "Daylight." They've also revealed they've started work on their fifth studio album.

Maroon 5 is currently scheduled to ring in 2013 with back-to-back shows at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, and will play some dates with Owl City and Neon Trees in 2013.

About Maroon 5

Maroon 5 has had continuing studio success since 2002 with the release of their album "Songs About Jane" and their concert tickets have been no exception. It took awhile for the first single "Harder to Breathe" to pick up ground, but it eventually made it into the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles. In 2006, Maroon 5 released their second album "It Won't Be Soon before Long" that features the hit single "Makes Me Wonder." This song was the number one single and video on iTunes before it was ever released for airplay. Maroon 5 continues to release albums such as "Hands all Over" in 2010.

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